(Photo: Disability Horizons)Martyn Sibley is the editor of Disability Horizons, an online magazine that advances "a 21st Century view of disability." He recently visited the New Forest, a section of southern England that...

Here's a clever gadget that offers a practical solution to an easily foreseeable problem. Yes, there's room for your wheelchair in the back of the car. But once you've sat in your car, how are you going to put it there?...

(Photo: Michael Sulsona)40 years ago, Michael Sulsona lost his legs to a landmine in Vietnam. For two years, he's been trying to get the Veterans' Administration to provide him with a replacement for the rickety old whee...

(Photo: @s_konnyaku)How well can you maneuver that wheelchair? You'd better be good, or you're going for a swim.Annoying, but typical: the designers put the next save point on the far side of this path. If you want to co...

(Photo: Greg Hurley)Kyron Cheek, 14, has muscular dystrophy. The Make-A-Wish Foundation offered him a wish. He decided that what he wanted more than anything else was a steampunk wheelchair.Make-A-Wish approached ModVic,...

(Photo: Diesel)Jillian Mercado is a fashion reporter. She has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. During her work for a fashion magazine, she met Nicola Formichetti, the artistic director for the Diesel fashion hou...

2-year old Alejandro had Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Medical insurance wouldn't cover a powered wheelchair until he was 5 years old. That was unacceptable to Shea, his father, who bought a wheelchair on eBay and modified it...

Samuel Nobile de Oliveira of Juína is paralyzed. He visits the local public health building in Brazil for medical care. But because it lacks a wheelchair ramp, doctors have to come outside to meet with him. Local...